Hinge.



1.]. SELTENREICH.

HINGE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1916.

1%594144. Pmnm Mar. 12,1918;

' l JeZ/EvWeZc/a yEIMW Q5 ff 20 so that the side bows JOHN J'. SELTENREICH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIB, essrslvon his entries.

TO AUTO SPECIALTIES MANU- FACTURING 00., OF ST. JQS'EPH, MICHIGAN, A CORPGEATIGN 0F CALIFORNIA.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

Application filed May 22, 1816. Serial No. 99,821.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. SELrnNRnIcn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges generally. The object of the invention is to provide hinge connections between movable parts, one of which parts is of soft material, such as malleable casting, in which pivot pins are entirely dispensed with, thereby effecting a saving. the hinge proper being formed on a bearing afforded by bending parts of one member to be hinged around the other. The invention consists in a device capable of carrying out the foregoing invention; which can be easily and cheaply made and installed; which is satisfactory in operation, and not readily liable to get out of order. The invention further consists in the features and details of construction which will be hereafter more fully set forth in the specification and claims.

The invention is especially applicable to use in connection with the movingparts of a vehicle bow top holder of the type shown in Bair Patent Number 1.0l0,110, November 28th, 1911, and is, therefore, shown in the drawing applied to that device. In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side view, and

Fig. 2 a perspective view of such a bow top holder equipped with the device of this invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 3 illustrates the parts of the principal hinge of the device separated one from the other.

Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the device of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a sectional the line 55 of Fig. 1.

As is fully set forth in the above mentioned Bair patent. a vehicle bow top holder comprises essentially a stock member 10 and an arm 12 bearing bow separator members 16, the stock and arm being hinged together at their bot om. as sh n in the drawin and detachablv connectible at the top by the spring link 18 manipulated b lever member (not here shownl of an ordinary vehicle top. generallv nowadavs an automobile, may be detachably secured in detail plan view on place between the stock and arm, individual bows being held in position by the separators 16. Devices of this character are sold by the tens of thousands to the larger manufacturers of automobiles, and consequently any saving in cost of construction is very essential, and the problem solved by this invention in connection therewith is to cheapen the construction of the three hinge points in the device without'in any way detracting from its etficiency.

In constructing the main hinge between the stock 10 and the arm 12, the construction illustrated in detail in the figures is preferably employed. One of these members, as 12, is provided with a slot or recess 22 adapted to receive the opposite member, as 10. as shown. the inner walls of this slot 22 being provided with lugs 24 having curved bearing faces 26 and 28 having a common center of curvature about the central axis an imaginary line) 30 of the hinge. The opposite member, as 10. is provided at the point of location of the hinge with a proiecting lug or tongue 32 adapted to extend through the slot 22 and some distance bevond the curved faces 26. heretofore referred to. The extreme end of this lug 30 is notched, as shown at 34. Fig. 3. so as to form two oppositely placed lips or flanges 36 and 38 adapted to be, as shown. bent away from each other and over the adiacent bearing surfaces 26, as clearly appears in the drawing. The body portion of the member 10 adi cent to the hinge is recessed on opposite sides in the curved surfaces 40 centered about the center 30 of the hinge. heretofore referred to. adapted to bear upon the surfaces 28, heretofore referred to. The result of the construction just described is that rocking of the parts 10 and 19 takes place at the bearing between the surfaces 26 and the members 36 and 38 resnectivelv. and at the b aring between the snrfaces 28 and 40. heretofore described. all this about the imaginary axis 30 of the hinge. the parts being held together by the bending over of the members 36 and 38. as shown. instead'of by a pin through the axis 30. As at least one of he pa ts 10 and 10. is made of soft material. such as malleable casting. it is possibl to bend the members 36 and 38. as described. and thus do away with the expense incident to coring a place for a pin through the axis providing a bearing therefor, and providing the pin itself as in previous constructions.

A modification of the invention is found at the top of the drawings, in which the member 18 is pivoted at 42 by providing a U-shaped notch 44 in the edge of the member 10 and bending the side walls 46 and 48 of said" U-shaped notch togetheras shown, to form a bearing for the link 18. Identically the same construction is used in connectingthe link 18 to the lever member 20 at50, the side walls which are bent together at this point being the parts 52 and 54 lo cated on lever 20.

in descr bing theprinclpal hinge, the slot orrecess 22 s located on the arm 12, and the v lug-'32- is located on stock 10, but, obviously, these may be reversed without departing from this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. .A hinge comprising two members provided with interfitting bearing surfaces, one

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. I

ofsaid members being provided with a tongue extendlng through an opening 1n the other member, the end of said tongue being split and bent in opposite :directions, so as to take bearing-on oppositev portions of the other member, for the purposes set forth.

2. A hinge comprising two members provided with interfitting bearing surfaces, one of said members carrying a tongue pro ectmg through a generally rectangular recess in the opposite member, lugs upon opposite said last mentioned bearing surfaces, vfor the purposes set forth. 7 v r In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence oftwo wit JOHN J. sELTE R ioH; Witnesses i DWIGHT B. CHE V R,

Sg'Rosnn ZWEIG.

Washington, D. C'. 

